Written by Mainiac   

Since the emergence of the Internet, it has not been easy for government officials and mainstream media folks to get away with lying to us. It has become necessary, if for no other reason than one’s sanity, to be choosy about accepting the pronouncements that come out of our nation’s capital as well as those that are printed in the once-revered “paper of record.”

The Internet, consequently, has been a cascade of pertinent personal experiences, investigative reporting, theories, conjectures put forth as fact, book reviews about critical events, lectures by experts and by some who are not, and a myriad of opinions.

It has become a matter of due diligence just to maintain a grip on reality. Arguably, the most significant event for the United States in this century happened on 9/11/01. Much has been made, and properly so, of the complicity of major news outlets in touting the Bush administration’s war plans that were supposedly ignited by this seminal event. But too little has been said about the impact that 9/11 had in generating the American people’s support for war, first in Afghanistan and later in Iraq.

Over the years the Internet has played an important role in helping people sort through the bits and pieces that make up the 9/11 puzzle. Five years later, Time magazine reported the following result in its September 6, 2006, issue:

“A Scripps-Howard poll of 1,010 adults last month found that 36% of Americans consider it “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that government officials either allowed the attacks to be carried out or carried out the attacks themselves. Thirty-six percent adds up to a lot of people. This is not a fringe phenomenon. It is a mainstream political reality. Although the 9/11 Truth Movement, as many conspiracy believers refer to their passion, has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, it is flourishing on the Internet.”

We have to get up to snuff more quickly on these kinds of events because the consequences if we do not are harsh and long-lasting. Can a case be made, then, that 9/11 became a template for 4/15? Details differ, of course, but certain similarities stand out:

One. On August 6, 2001, President Bush was warned in a daily intelligence briefing, headlined Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S., that an enemy planned to use planes to strike the US. [1]

Among warnings from several countries, perhaps the ones that came from the Russians were more ominous because they came from that country’s president:

“Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly stated that he ordered his intelligence agencies to alert the US in the summer of 2001 that suicide pilots were training for attacks on US targets. [Fox News, 5/17/02] The head of Russian intelligence also stated, “We had clearly warned them” on several occasions, but they “did not pay the necessary attention.” [Agence France-Presse, 9/16/01] The Russian newspaper Izvestia claimed that Russian intelligence agents knew the participants in the attacks, and: “More than that, Moscow warned Washington about preparation for these actions a couple of weeks before they happened.” [Izvestia, 9/12/02] [2]

The FBI also received reports from owners of flight training schools that certain students had raised suspicions because they were only interested in learning how to turn the planes in mid-air. [3]

Whatever was done, if anything, in response to these warnings, the attack on the Twin Towers was not prevented from taking place in mid-September.

Last month an article headlined Russia Contacted US Government “Multiple” Times appeared in the Boston Globe (4/23/13). It tells us that beginning in 2011 the FBI was contacted concerning the activities of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. US agents told the Russians that they had investigated and found him to be clean. Now it turns out that he is alleged to have been a participant in the 4/15 bombing.

Two. Strange, isn’t it? In both situations, either the CIA or the FBI received warnings but failed to take preventive actions. Improvements in communications after 9/11 were supposed to have been made between the FBI, the CIA and other agencies like NSA under the Homeland Security Act.

In spite of the US government’s sophisticated intelligence gathering apparatus and its intrusive surveillance operations, we are again hearing the identical criticisms being made and the same questions being asked that were asked after 9/11.

Americans have been led to believe that these agencies failed to protect them from “terrorists attacks.” But what if these agencies were responsible for these attacks, known as false flag operations.

Were Tsarnaev Brothers Involved In A Sting Operation?

Three. Why did the FBI cease surveillance of Tamerlan? If our every move is being catalogued, why didn’t the FBI know that Tamerlan went to New Hampshire to spend $400 on firecrackers containing gunpowder or to a mall to purchase pressure cookers? How did the brothers come up with the money to make the bombs?

Rather than simply discontinuing their investigation of Tamerlan, perhaps FBI agents decided to involve him and his brother in a sting operation like the one described below.

In an article in Mother Jones (4/23/13), Trevor Aaronson describes how the FBI helped a US citizen, Rezwan Ferdaus, also a resident of Massachusetts, become a terrorist:

“Through the informant [an agent posing as an Al Queda operative] the FBI encouraged Ferdaus to move forward with his idea to attack the US Capitol [with a remote-controlled plane loaded with explosives]. They dedicated significant resources to the operation, giving him $4000 to purchase an F-86 Sabre remote-controlled airplane and providing him with “explosives”—25 pounds of fake C-4 and three inert grenades. In May 2011, Ferdaus traveled to Washington, DC, to scout out locations from which to launch his weapon—all while being secretly recorded by FBI agents. Finally, on September 28, 2011, after a nine-month sting operation, FBI agents arrested Ferdaus, charging him with, among other offenses, attempting to destroy a federal building and providing material support to terrorists. Ferdaus pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 17 years in prison, though no evidence indicated that he could have built and launched a weapon were it not for the FBI providing the money and materials.”

Furthermore, in his book, The Terror Factory: Inside The FBI’s Manufactured War On Terrorism, Aaronson reveals that government agents have arrested 175 alleged terrorists since 9/11 as a result of sting operations similar to the one used to entrap Ferdaus.

However, sting operations were taking place before 9/11. Some of us may recall that a front-page article in the New York Times (10/28/93) reported that an informant was a key witness in the trial of four men who were convicted that year of bombing one of the World Trade Center towers. The explosion killed six people, injured more than a thousand, and caused billons of dollars in damages. The informant had taped many conversations with his FBI handlers. On one tape he receives reassurance that the explosives will be replaced with a harmless substance. Obviously, they weren’t.

Another Front In The War On Terrorism

Four. Remember the 2001 anthrax scare? The first five letters mailed to television news outlets via American Media headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, were postmarked September 18th, one week after planes flew into the towers. Yet White House staff were given ciprofloxacin, the preferred antidote to anthrax, early in September and Vice President Dick Cheney and staff members were given the antibiotic on 9/11 as they were being ushered to Camp David. Later on, two more anthrax letters were mailed to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. In all, five people, all postal workers, died from anthrax poisoning. The FBI happily declared the case closed after a scientist, the second to be targeted for investigation, committed suicide. [4]

Now we have the “ricin scare,” or new “bioterrorism threat.” On April 17th, the Department of Justice announced that it had made an arrest after letters postmarked April 16th, the day after the Boston bombing, had been intercepted at a government mail-screening facility. Addressed to President Barack Obama and Senator Roger Wicker, they were held up because of the possibility that they were contaminated with ricin, a deadly toxin found in castor beans. [5] As with the anthrax business, the charges surrounding the first arrest proved to be unsustainable. But the second one, now in progress, may stick.

Neither of these poisons are substances that the average American has under the kitchen sink. Whio would have these ready to roll? And were they used by government agencies to ratchet up the fear that we are under attack? The Army’s Fort Detrick in Maryland could be a source. The Center for Land Use Interpretation that describes how “the nation’s lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived” offers the following description:

“Fort Detrick is a 1,200-acre Army base housing a complex of biological laboratories, and communications facilities. Originally a research center for the nation’s biological weapons program, Fort Detrick is one of the world’s most important biomedical research facilities. It is the home of USAMRIID, the infectious disease research facility that confronted the notorious ebola virus outbreak scare a few years ago, and one of only two facilities in the country officially permitted to handle the most dangerous biological agents on earth, inside biosafety-level-5 biocontainment labs (the other is at the center for Disease Control in Atlanta). Fort Detrick is also an important federal communications center, housing numerous vital satellite and fiber optic links, including a major bulk data link, directly connecting Fort Detrick to the National Security Agency, White House, and the Pentagon.” [6]

What Impact Might 4/15 Have On Our Future?

Five. Within a month of 9/11, the US began bombing Afghanistan on Sunday, October 7th, targeting Al Qaeda’s terrorist training camps and their communication networks. Some said at the time that since the Afghan government was not held responsible for 9/11 and that fifteen of the nineteen hi-jackers were Saudis, the matter should be handled by international police. Was Bush sending troops into Afghanistan for a reason other than revenge?

In retrospect, 9/11 may be seen as a psychological operation that was invaluable in manipulating and influencing public opinion to support wars — illegal wars — of aggression. Will the Boston Marathon bombing come to be identified as such an event?

It is now one month after that bombing and the debate in Washington about intervention in Syria is intensifying, Israel already having led the way. As the surprise attack in Benghazi, Libya, has demonstrated, boots on the ground are needed in order to secure the desired outcome. And the war on Iran is an itch that continues to be scratched.

The ongoing investigation of the marathon bombing will keep it fresh in the public’s collective mind as congressional hearings underscore the so-called folly of the automatic cuts in defense spending — a result of the sequester — and refocus concern about the economy to fear of terrorism.

Notes:

[1] http://tinyurl.com/7zksof

[2] http://tinyurl.com/b2uo5f8

[3] http://tinyurl.com/ay97j6b

[4] http://tinyurl.com/akj9fxm

[5] http://tinyurl.com/ace8wsn



Since the emergence of the Internet, it has not been easy for government officials and mainstream media folks to get away with lying to us. It has become necessary, if for no other reason than one’s sanity, to be choosy about accepting the pronouncements that come out of our nation’s capital as well as those that are printed in the once-revered “paper of record.”

The Internet, consequently, has been a cascade of pertinent personal experiences, investigative reporting, theories, conjectures put forth as fact, book reviews about critical events, lectures by experts and by some who are not, and a myriad of opinions.

It has become a matter of due diligence just to maintain a grip on reality. Arguably, the most significant event for the United States in this century happened on 9/11/01. Much has been made, and properly so, of the complicity of major news outlets in touting the Bush administration’s war plans that were supposedly ignited by this seminal event. But too little has been said about the impact that 9/11 had in generating the American people’s support for war, first in Afghanistan and later in Iraq.

Over the years the Internet has played an important role in helping people sort through the bits and pieces that make up the 9/11 puzzle. Five years later, Time magazine reported the following result in its September 6, 2006, issue:

“A Scripps-Howard poll of 1,010 adults last month found that 36% of Americans consider it “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that government officials either allowed the attacks to be carried out or carried out the attacks themselves. Thirty-six percent adds up to a lot of people. This is not a fringe phenomenon. It is a mainstream political reality. Although the 9/11 Truth Movement, as many conspiracy believers refer to their passion, has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, it is flourishing on the Internet.”

We have to get up to snuff more quickly on these kinds of events because the consequences if we do not are harsh and long-lasting. Can a case be made, then, that 9/11 became a template for 4/15? Details differ, of course, but certain similarities stand out:

One. On August 6, 2001, President Bush was warned in a daily intelligence briefing, headlined Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S., that an enemy planned to use planes to strike the US. [1]

Among warnings from several countries, perhaps the ones that came from the Russians were more ominous because they came from that country’s president:

“Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly stated that he ordered his intelligence agencies to alert the US in the summer of 2001 that suicide pilots were training for attacks on US targets. [Fox News, 5/17/02] The head of Russian intelligence also stated, “We had clearly warned them” on several occasions, but they “did not pay the necessary attention.” [Agence France-Presse, 9/16/01] The Russian newspaper Izvestia claimed that Russian intelligence agents knew the participants in the attacks, and: “More than that, Moscow warned Washington about preparation for these actions a couple of weeks before they happened.” [Izvestia, 9/12/02] [2]

The FBI also received reports from owners of flight training schools that certain students had raised suspicions because they were only interested in learning how to turn the planes in mid-air. [3]

Whatever was done, if anything, in response to these warnings, the attack on the Twin Towers was not prevented from taking place in mid-September.

Last month an article headlined Russia Contacted US Government “Multiple” Times appeared in the Boston Globe (4/23/13). It tells us that beginning in 2011 the FBI was contacted concerning the activities of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. US agents told the Russians that they had investigated and found him to be clean. Now it turns out that he is alleged to have been a participant in the 4/15 bombing.

Two. Strange, isn’t it? In both situations, either the CIA or the FBI received warnings but failed to take preventive actions. Improvements in communications after 9/11 were supposed to have been made between the FBI, the CIA and other agencies like NSA under the Homeland Security Act.

In spite of the US government’s sophisticated intelligence gathering apparatus and its intrusive surveillance operations, we are again hearing the identical criticisms being made and the same questions being asked that were asked after 9/11.

Americans have been led to believe that these agencies failed to protect them from “terrorists attacks.” But what if these agencies were responsible for these attacks, known as false flag operations.

Were Tsarnaev Brothers Involved In A Sting Operation?

Three. Why did the FBI cease surveillance of Tamerlan? If our every move is being catalogued, why didn’t the FBI know that Tamerlan went to New Hampshire to spend $400 on firecrackers containing gunpowder or to a mall to purchase pressure cookers? How did the brothers come up with the money to make the bombs?

Rather than simply discontinuing their investigation of Tamerlan, perhaps FBI agents decided to involve him and his brother in a sting operation like the one described below.

In an article in Mother Jones (4/23/13), Trevor Aaronson describes how the FBI helped a US citizen, Rezwan Ferdaus, also a resident of Massachusetts, become a terrorist:

“Through the informant [an agent posing as an Al Queda operative] the FBI encouraged Ferdaus to move forward with his idea to attack the US Capitol [with a remote-controlled plane loaded with explosives]. They dedicated significant resources to the operation, giving him $4000 to purchase an F-86 Sabre remote-controlled airplane and providing him with “explosives”—25 pounds of fake C-4 and three inert grenades. In May 2011, Ferdaus traveled to Washington, DC, to scout out locations from which to launch his weapon—all while being secretly recorded by FBI agents. Finally, on September 28, 2011, after a nine-month sting operation, FBI agents arrested Ferdaus, charging him with, among other offenses, attempting to destroy a federal building and providing material support to terrorists. Ferdaus pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 17 years in prison, though no evidence indicated that he could have built and launched a weapon were it not for the FBI providing the money and materials.”

Furthermore, in his book, The Terror Factory: Inside The FBI’s Manufactured War On Terrorism, Aaronson reveals that government agents have arrested 175 alleged terrorists since 9/11 as a result of sting operations similar to the one used to entrap Ferdaus.

However, sting operations were taking place before 9/11. Some of us may recall that a front-page article in the New York Times (10/28/93) reported that an informant was a key witness in the trial of four men who were convicted that year of bombing one of the World Trade Center towers. The explosion killed six people, injured more than a thousand, and caused billons of dollars in damages. The informant had taped many conversations with his FBI handlers. On one tape he receives reassurance that the explosives will be replaced with a harmless substance. Obviously, they weren’t.

Another Front In The War On Terrorism

Four. Remember the 2001 anthrax scare? The first five letters mailed to television news outlets via American Media headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, were postmarked September 18th, one week after planes flew into the towers. Yet White House staff were given ciprofloxacin, the preferred antidote to anthrax, early in September and Vice President Dick Cheney and staff members were given the antibiotic on 9/11 as they were being ushered to Camp David. Later on, two more anthrax letters were mailed to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. In all, five people, all postal workers, died from anthrax poisoning. The FBI happily declared the case closed after a scientist, the second to be targeted for investigation, committed suicide. [4]

Now we have the “ricin scare,” or new “bioterrorism threat.” On April 17th, the Department of Justice announced that it had made an arrest after letters postmarked April 16th, the day after the Boston bombing, had been intercepted at a government mail-screening facility. Addressed to President Barack Obama and Senator Roger Wicker, they were held up because of the possibility that they were contaminated with ricin, a deadly toxin found in castor beans. [5] As with the anthrax business, the charges surrounding the first arrest proved to be unsustainable. But the second one, now in progress, may stick.

Neither of these poisons are substances that the average American has under the kitchen sink. Whio would have these ready to roll? And were they used by government agencies to ratchet up the fear that we are under attack? The Army’s Fort Detrick in Maryland could be a source. The Center for Land Use Interpretation that describes how “the nation’s lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived” offers the following description:

“Fort Detrick is a 1,200-acre Army base housing a complex of biological laboratories, and communications facilities. Originally a research center for the nation’s biological weapons program, Fort Detrick is one of the world’s most important biomedical research facilities. It is the home of USAMRIID, the infectious disease research facility that confronted the notorious ebola virus outbreak scare a few years ago, and one of only two facilities in the country officially permitted to handle the most dangerous biological agents on earth, inside biosafety-level-5 biocontainment labs (the other is at the center for Disease Control in Atlanta). Fort Detrick is also an important federal communications center, housing numerous vital satellite and fiber optic links, including a major bulk data link, directly connecting Fort Detrick to the National Security Agency, White House, and the Pentagon.” [6]

What Impact Might 4/15 Have On Our Future?

Five. Within a month of 9/11, the US began bombing Afghanistan on Sunday, October 7th, targeting Al Qaeda’s terrorist training camps and their communication networks. Some said at the time that since the Afghan government was not held responsible for 9/11 and that fifteen of the nineteen hi-jackers were Saudis, the matter should be handled by international police. Was Bush sending troops into Afghanistan for a reason other than revenge?

In retrospect, 9/11 may be seen as a psychological operation that was invaluable in manipulating and influencing public opinion to support wars — illegal wars — of aggression. Will the Boston Marathon bombing come to be identified as such an event?

It is now one month after that bombing and the debate in Washington about intervention in Syria is intensifying, Israel already having led the way. As the surprise attack in Benghazi, Libya, has demonstrated, boots on the ground are needed in order to secure the desired outcome. And the war on Iran is an itch that continues to be scratched.

The ongoing investigation of the marathon bombing will keep it fresh in the public’s collective mind as congressional hearings underscore the so-called folly of the automatic cuts in defense spending — a result of the sequester — and refocus concern about the economy to fear of terrorism.

Notes:

[1] http://tinyurl.com/7zksof

[2] http://tinyurl.com/b2uo5f8

[3] http://tinyurl.com/ay97j6b

[4] http://tinyurl.com/akj9fxm

[5] http://tinyurl.com/ace8wsn

[6] http://tinyurl.com/anfwwon